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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1501-1538, 1598-1617, 1681
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Orpement, -iment, -ament, n. Also: -yment, orpanent. [ME. and e.m.E. orpiment (1310), orpement, -yment (Chaucer), orpment (1548), OF. orpiment, also or pieument, or pigment, L. auripigmentum gold pigment.] Trisulphide of arsenic, or Yellow Arsenic, used as a gold or yellow pigment.Also attrib. with -collour, id.1501 Treasurer's Accounts II. 64.
For half ane pund orpement iiij s. [for the painter] 1506 Ib. III. 193.
For tua pund orpement, xij s. 1506 Ib. 201.
For ane pund orpyment 1537–8 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) I. 215.
Orpanent 1598 Edinburgh Testaments XXXI. 351.
Thrie pund of orpiment price xlviij s. 1612 Bk. Rates (Halyb.) 323.
Orpement for painteris the hundreth weght xii li. 1617 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) II. 78.
Orpamentattrib. 1681 Blackness Customs 26 b.
Eight pund of painters birsies & tuenty pund orpament collour valu seven pound Scotts
